Crazy Week and a Super Fun DAD

We had a CRAZY week last week. Caleb had Basketball camp and both the older kiddos had Sports camp, then the girls had Swim lessons. Add scouts and princess ballet to the mix and it was busy. To finish the week, Carl decided he wanted to go camping to Pinecrest for Father's Day. It was a lot of work to get ready, but way worth it by the time we got there. I am pretty convinced that roasting marshmellows is one of my kids FAVORITE things to do. Camping is especially fun because Carl does all the cooking too. He made a yummy dutch oven dinner for us. On Saturday morning Syd got up before the other kids and wanted to go for a hike, so Carl was awesome and took her on her own little hike. Then he made pancakes, bacon and sausage. Did I mention that we were there to celebrate "Father's Day" ? I am pretty lucky. We had to leave the campground by noon so we parked the truck and trailer then hiked around the lake and tried to hike to Strawberry. The kids did so good but luckily Syd got tired and asked to ride on Carls shoulders. They were walking ahead of us when Carl yelled at us to STOP!!! There was a Rattlesnake on the trail. Carl almost stepped on it, but heard the rattle in time. It was pretty freakin scary because 5 minutes before we saw the snake Ashlee had been running ahead of us pretty far. We were only able to stay 1 night because I had sharing time on Sunday, but it was a lot of fun.



The water was FREEZING and the only way to get Caleb to go in was for Carl to challenge our super competitive kid to a race to the buoys.

Carl taught Caleb Chess for his Chess beltloop for scouts.

The super gourmet and yummy stew.

Syd set this pose up herself and asked Caleb to take her picture.

Having a snack by the river.

The "Rattler"